Who is Hussein al-Sharaa, the father of "al-Julani"?

For years, Abu Muhammad al-Julani, the leader of Jabhat al-Nusra, then Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, and finally Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, has ceased to be a man of “unknown parentage,” as some of his opponents have called him. It has become clear that his name is Ahmed, and that he belongs to a Golani family that migrated to Damascus after the 1967 war. It has also become clear that his father is the oil economist Hussein al-Sharaa.

Opposition factions led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham managed to enter Damascus on December 8, ending the Assad family’s more than half-century rule known for brutal repression, after a lightning 11-day offensive...